The Video Toaster Flyer

(The Tapeless Editor)

Technical Specifications

Switcher/Editor

• Editing and sequencing of video clips, audio clips, framestores, CG and effects
• Drag and drop storyboard interface
• Graphic representation of all crouton types (A4000 - 64 color, A2000 - 16 gray)
• Multiple switcher modes:
• File Management
• Project editing
• Switcher view for live production
• Fully automatic A/B roll editing
• Record video with audio or audio-only clips
• Multiple record modes
• Split audio edits (audio lead, audio trail or both)
• Automatic Split-edit function
• Edit to music
• Background audio tracks (2 stereo tracks with optional audio hard drive)
• Line level audio input with gain control
• Play all croutons or play from current position
• SMPTE Time Code Support via Flyer serial port (requires optional time code reader)
• Cut and paste time code values
• Cutting Room Features:
• Destructively trim audio or video clips
• Duplicate audio or video clips
• Extract Flyer stills from video clip
• Create audio clip from a video clip with audio attached
• Directory tabs (shortcut buttons to video, audio, or framestore locations)
• SCSI tape backup and restore
• Over 100 new Toaster effects
• ARexx macros for creating time lapse and stop motion clips

ToasterCG

• Safe title area display
• Rotate and shear text to any angle
• Scalable PostScript text and brushes
• ARexx macros command support
• New ARexx macros:
• Spell checker
• Image scaling
• Copy/Paste font attributes
• EPS loader
• Graphics loader (BMP, JPEG, IFF24, PICT, Targa, TIFF and more)
• Over 30 new PostScript fonts
• New color ToasterFonts
• Redesigned icon interface

ToasterPaint

• New and improved user interface
• Full screen 256,000 color HAM8 display for Amiga 4000 (AGA)
• Full screen 4,096 color HAM6 display for Amiga 2000, 3000 (non-AGA)
• Improved color palette with HSV color wheel
• Airbrush tool
• Stencil tool
• Alpha transparency mode and painting
• PostScript text support including:
• Size font, shear font, stretch font, rotate font any angle, bold fonts and outline fonts
• Save as Flyer clip
• Load Flyer stills or clips
• Global fill
• Increased magnify mode (A4000 only)
• ARexx macros for:
• Graphics loader/savers (BMP, JPEG, IFF24, PICT, Targa, TIFF and more)
• Make Flyer stills
• Make slow motion clips
• Make fast motion clips
• Mirror
• Negative
• Sepia tone processing
• Improved menu structure
• Full image button
• Flip range for color spreads
• User definable color palette

LightWave 3D

• Ability to load and save Flyer clips
• Surface sample sphere display (HAM, DV1 or Picasso)
• Basic inverse kinematics
• Graphics loader/savers (BMP, JPEG, IFF24, PICT, Targa, TIFF and more)
• "Unaffected by Fog" option for objects
• "Unseen by Rays" option for objects
• Improved shadow mapping and soft filtering
• Anamorphic option for NTSC widescreen or CinemaScope
• Item selection by clicking in Layout view
• Plug-in architecture for animation, textures and image processing
• Plug-in architecture for object, image and animation import/export
• Multiple textures per surface parameter
• New reflection mapping options and control panel
• New lens flare options
• Multiple image format loaders and savers
• Several new envelope controls

LightWave Modeler

• New plug-in architecture
• Advanced and improved metaforming
• Solid object preview mode
• Automatic standards format between metric and standard in numeric requests
• Numeric functions can be typed directly into numeric requesters

Flyer Technical Specifications:

Top Quality is true broadcast quality which is 60 fields per second, full overscan (752 pixels wide by 480 lines high).

Internally the Toaster works with D2 data so there is no D2/composite transcoding.

The Flyer uses NewTek's Video Toaster Adaptive Statiscal Coding (VTASC). VTASC relies on limiting the video signal (i.e. dropping to Beta SP quality) instead of lowering picture quality, as do JPEG, MPEG and WaveLet. The resulting output is broadcast video. Unlike other common compression schemes there is no visible pixelization. Using faster drives, lossless D2 quality can be acheived.

The audio is 8 bit sample at 14.3 MHz using state of the art A/D, D/A converters.

Flyer requires: Amiga 2000 or 4000, Video Toaster Card and Video Toaster System 4.1 software with 9MB of RAM minimum, 100MB free on hard drive. The following are the capabilities offered by various hard drive configurations:

One Fast SCSI II (video) drive: Cuts-only editing, no split edits or addtional audio tracks available, can record LightWave animations as video clips, any length up to the capacity of the drive.

One Fast SCSI II (video) drive, one SCSI (audio) drive: cuts-only editing with split-edit capability, two additional stereo pairs can be played from audio drive, can record LightWave animations.

Two Fast SCSI II (video) drives, one SCSI (audio) drive: Full A/B roll editing, with split-edits capability, and two additional stereo audio pairs can be played from the audio drive. Can record LightWave animations.

Input from video tapes must be time base corrected. Consult your dealer to configure a system suited to your needs. Some features require an Amiga with the AGA chip set and 2 MB of chip RAM. Specifications subject to change without notice.